Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the technology that drives it has tremendous potential to remake and improve many aspects of our society and our lives. But without adequate guardrails, AI also creates huge new risks for all of us.  We can only capture the opportunities and benefits of AI with effective government oversight and that needs to happen now.

• AI is a powerful tool for productivity, however use of AI is already causing job losses in the information and tech sectors and the scale of those losses are expected to accelerate in the next few years, possibly dramatically.   

• Unrestrained use of AI opens the door to risks for mis-information that would be disruptive to our elections and politics, that would allow for new forms of fraud and theft, and that could corrupt almost any form of digital communications.   

• Unregulated access to AI re-wires the brains of users, which can be especially damaging for young people still developing communication and reasoning skills.   

The AI tech billionaires who attend Met Galas and are funding the White House Ballroom are the same people fighting to keep Congress from putting any meaningful oversight of their business.

Congress needs to lead today to make sure the innovations spurred by AI don’t simply roll over families, workers, and our democracy. 

In Congress I will support: 

• Passing a National Data Privacy law with clear data ownership standards and prevent AI companies from selling personal data.  

• Promoting and requiring use of open source data standards that positively identify when any written, visual, or audio content is AI generated.  

• Protecting kids and students by requiring age verification, parental consent, controls on AI in classrooms, and stiff penalties and enforcement for AI used in child pornography. 

• Requiring independent safety testing and mandatory cyber-security for powerful AI models, and creating restrictions on AI model use and mandatory reporting for cybersecurity incidents.  

• Establishing a federal agency dedicated to AI monitoring and regulation and ensuring AI expertise and capacity becomes established throughout the federal government. 

• Establishing comprehensive limits on uses of AI that impact personal opportunities such as final hiring decisions, mortgage approvals, medical insurance approvals, rental applications, probation and parole decisions, court rulings, and other decisions by public agencies.  

• Allow states to develop more specific guidance on use of AI.